Kyle Cripps photographed by Eliot Kamenitz

The New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park & NOLAxNOLA present a live hour of piano performance featuring Kyle Cripps.

This program takes place inside our third-floor Performance Center, listening room. Admission is free and open to the public, seating is limited and offered first come, first serve. Learn more about our program admission policy. 

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A native of Cape May, NJ, multi-instrumentalist and composer Kyle Cripps is an in-demand musician in the New Orleans area. Kyle maintains an extremely active performance schedule as a solo performer or with bands such as Smoke N Bones, Maid of Orleans, Corporate America. He is also a regular contributor to several active brass bands including One Love Brass Band, Hacienda Brass Band, Orleans Brass Band, Big Fun Brass Band and serves as organist/music director for First Presbyterian Church in Slidell, LA.

 In the past few years he has become active as a producer and video editor with several music videos to his credit. In 2008, Kyle decided to take his career to the greatest music city in the world, New Orleans.  There he completed his master’s degree at the University of New Orleans on a full-tuition award.  While at UNO, he took the time to co-lead and write several arrangements for the UNO Jazz Orchestra.  He now continues to be an in-demand musician on both saxophone and keyboard.

Over the course of his career, he has shared the stage with DJ Logic, Nickie Glaspie, G Love, Glen David Andrews, Marcia Ball, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Ellis Marsalis, Irvin Mayfield, Luis Bonilla, Gerald French, Jason Marsalis, and Gerald Veasley among others. Kyle has also been active as an educator, and was a staff member of the New Orleans Jazz Institute’s inaugural music school program, the Saturday Music School, helping to develop the school’s jazz curriculum for young music students.

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This event is in partnership with NOLAxNOLA. To check out other event listings, go to NOLAxNOLA.com.